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The top 10 Pakistan Test cricketers

SIMON WILDE

November 13 2005, 12:00am, The Sunday Times

2 AH Kardar As the founding father of the game in Pakistan, Abdul Kardar deserves to bear comparison with Imran. After playing for India in England in 1946, the year before Partition, Kardar stayed on to study at Oxford, spend two seasons playing for Warwickshire and marry the daughter of the club chairman. He then returned home to lead Pakistan in their first 23 Tests. With bat and ball he was useful rather than great, but his self-assurance ensured that Pakistan were competitive, not cowed, and during his time they were good enough to record victories against all the other Test teams they faced. In retirement, Kardar was Pakistan’s guiding light, as chairman of selectors, then chairman of the board, before resigning in 1977 in…

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